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Jo Becker / New York Times:
Investigation: US and Russian domains that traffic in disinformation are linking to Swedish far-right sites, helping drive their rapid growth in the country — Sweden was long seen as a progressive utopia. Then came waves of immigrants — and the forces of populism at home and abroad.
Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Gannett/GateHouse deal, which is far from ideal for either company or their readers; neither company has offered a big vision aside from cost cuts — What will the largest local news company need to do and be to be successful in the 2020s? Neither Gannett nor Gatehouse …
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / The Atlantic:
The El Paso shooting was the deadliest attack on Latinos in recent history, yet national headlines and TV chyrons downplayed that fact and emphasized Trump — I've been a professional journalist for 20 years. But this week, the media failed Latinos in America during what was perhaps our darkest hour in my lifetime.
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Ana Marie Cox / Columbia Journalism Review:
WaPo's Fact Checker and its arbitrary Pinocchios dangerously minimizes Trump's policy misrepresentations without giving readers context behind Trump's lies — The Washington Post's fact checker column—"The Truth Behind The Rhetoric," by Glenn Kessler—is one of the paper's most visible franchises …
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Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
A look at BBC's Extend In News program, which embeds people with disabilities in the newsroom and has recruited 31 journalists since it piloted in 2017 — The broadcaster places reporters at the likes of Panorama and Money Box to find their passions, hone their skills and support access to the workplace
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Tommy Craggs / Mother Jones:
Four writers who are constantly online talk about reclaiming and retraining their attention span in an economy built on capturing and manipulating it — Can the very online ever unplug? An entire cottage industry has sprung up around this particular anxiety: everything from offline vacations and …
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Liana Van Nostrand / NPR:
Despite NPR listener complaints about how reporters and hosts speak and sound, the variety of voices helps NPR reflect the diversity of its audience — What comes to mind when you imagine an “NPR voice”? You might hear the rich baritone of Bob Edwards. You might think of Terry Gross' velvety timbre.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
11 current and past YouTube moderators say popular creators like Logan Paul often get special treatment in the form of looser interpretations of guidelines — Moderators describe a chaotic workplace where exceptions for lucrative influencers are the norm. — SAN FRANCISCO …
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Daniel Green / Journalism.co.uk:
How First News, UK's only newspaper for preteens and teenagers, tries to cover stories like Brexit and climate crisis without overwhelming its young readers — From Brexit to the climate crisis, 60 per cent of UK's 12-15-year-olds are interested in news. But how do you report for younger audiences without overwhelming them?
Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic:
Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships — What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision. — Have you read Victoria Helen Stone's False Step?
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Rae Ellen Bichell / kunc.org:
Longmont, a city in Colorado, is doing a feasibility study on how to change the way its library is funded, in a way that might also help fund local journalism — Many parts of the Mountain West are news deserts — and it's getting worse. More than 20 counties in our region have no local newspaper.
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Jacqui Banaszynski / Storyboard Posts Archive:
Q&A with Michael Kruse, senior staff writer at Politico on covering his first Trump rally in Greenville in a “sweaty, panicky, fatigue-fighting sprint” — Politico Magazine's Michael Kruse leans on tried-and-true storytelling techniques (and a good editor) to deliver “something else” from a news event